[Plugin Update] NavigateTo

sualk

Can you make the plugin darkmode capable?

Mark Olson

Good suggestions! I’ve been enjoying working on this plugin, and I don’t know what Oleksii has in mind, but I’m planning to start working on adding glob syntax to NavigateTo, along with | for logical OR and <expression> for grouping.

Ideally I’d like to be able to do something like this:
*foo*.txt | <bar baz.md>
which would match (.txt files with foo in the filename (but not elsewhere in the path) OR (files named baz.md with bar somewhere else in the path)

I can also port in the dark mode support that was recently added to the NotepadPlusPlusPluginPack, @sualk.

Screen White

I came across this discussion while looking into fuzzy string matching for my thesis.

I think guy038 raised an interesting point about regex and fuzzy search giving different results. As I understand it, regex is mainly about matching a defined pattern, while edit-distance-based search can tolerate small changes like missing or substituted characters.

For file navigation, I imagine ranking matters quite a bit too. A filename that starts with the query might be more useful than a slightly closer match somewhere in a long path.

I’ve been reading about edit-distance thresholds and ranking here:
[URL Redacted - site is about Levenshtein distance and includes fancy text generators]

I also contribute to that resource, for transparency.

I’m not sure which matching algorithm NavigateTo uses internally, but I thought the distinction might help explain some of the differences people noticed.

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moderator cleaning out links to fancy text generators, as the existence of some links encourages spammers to try to most more links to competing sites. users can do their own web searches for online “fancy text generators” or similar phrasings

PeterJones

@Screen-White said:

I also contribute to that resource

We do not allow links to fancy text generators here: every topic that has any becomes a honeypot for more such links, getting low quality posts that pretend to be responses but are actually just spam advertising. If you have something meaningful to say about Notepad++, feel free.

But if you post another link to your fancy text generator website(s), you will be banned for spamming.